And then there is this...re:Franken

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51. I hate how they use our own fringe wing of PC police against us

That Al could not, as a Democrat, simply scoff off the charges. Say he was hamming it up for the camera and she was in on it for a staged photo, with lots of other people there. And say that there was no forced kissing from what he remembers.

That's what a Republican would do. Because Republicans do not have a fringe PC police force in their party to deal with. In fact they have the bizarro opposite force that will defend their rep even from much more serious actions, even serious crimes. And so you'd have to have concrete indisputable proof to ever have them ever apologize or resign. And after a few weeks its all forgotten.

But Al, as a Democrat, is required to walk an almost impossibly careful line. He must make the humblest of apologies even if he deep down doesn't think he did anything wrong, at least at the time, and taking in context of the situation. And in so doing, gives even greater ammunition to the enemy. "where's there's smoke there's fire" they'll say. If he didn't do anything wrong, why is he grovelling about it?

But grovel he must. Not for Republicans, or more specifically Republican voters, who voted into the Presidency a self admitted sexual predatory abuser, but for our own fringe PC police who's predictability is being used to the maximum by Republicans to silence one of their biggest advisory.